The 1993 FIBA European Championship, commonly called FIBA EuroBasket 1993, was the 28th FIBA EuroBasket regional basketball championship, held by FIBA Europe. It was held in Germany between 22 June and 4 July 1993. Sixteen national teams entered the event under the auspices of FIBA Europe, the sport's regional governing body. The cities of Berlin, Karlsruhe and Munich hosted the tournament. Hosts Germany won their first FIBA European title by defeating Russia with a 71–70 score in the final. Germany's Chris Welp was voted the tournament's MVP. This edition of the FIBA EuroBasket tournament also served as qualification for the 1994 FIBA World Championship, giving a berth to the top five teams in the final standings.
Qualification
Competition Date Vacancies Qualified Qualified from EuroBasket 1991 24 – 29 June 1991 3 Qualified through Qualifying Round 1 May 1991 – 18 November 1992 8 Qualified through Additional Qualifying Round 30 May – 7 June 1993 5
Venues Location Picture City Arena Capacity Status Round Berlin Deutschlandhalle 8,500 Opened in 1935 Groups B, D and F Karlsruhe Europahalle 5,000 Opened in 1983 Groups A, C and E München Olympiahalle 10,800 Opened in 1972 Knockout and qualification rounds
Teams The tournament was originally planned for 12 teams. However, after the qualifying round was concluded, FIBA Europe decided to expand it to 16 teams. The main reason for this decision were political changes in Eastern Europe - both the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia had disintegrated. Teams from these two countries had completely dominated competitions in European basketball up to that point. Yugoslavia was the title holder but was banned from all international sport competitions as a result of sanctions against Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Russia was announced as the successor to the Soviet Union team and competed as an independent country at a major tournament for the first time. Since teams from new sovereign nations, including 1992 Olympics silver medalist Croatia and bronze medalist Lithuania did not have the opportunity to compete in the qualifying round, FIBA Europe organized an additional qualifying tournament in order to provide some of these teams a chance to participate at the championship. The additional tournament was held in Wrocław, Poland a month before Eurobasket.
Format Teams competed in groups of four. The top three teams from each group advanced to the second round. The 12 teams that qualified to the second round were divided in two groups of six teams each, with one group containing the best three teams from groups A and B, while the other containing the three best teams from groups C and D. Results from the previous round were carried over, but only those against teams which had qualified for the second round. After the second round, the four best teams from each group advanced to the knockout stage of the tournament. Teams eliminated in the quarterfinals competed in a consolation bracket for places 5th through 8th in the final standings.
Squads
Preliminary round Qualified for the second round
Group A Times given below are in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).
Group B
Group C
Group D
Second round Advanced to the quarterfinals
Group E
Group F
Knockout stage Championship bracket
Quarterfinals
Semifinals
Third place
Final
5th to 8th place
Awards
1993 FIBA EuroBasket MVP: Chris Welp ( Germany)
All-Tournament Team Sergei Bazarevich Jordi Villacampa Fanis Christodoulou Chris Welp (MVP) Dino Rađa
Final standings
Qualified for the 1994 FIBA World Championship Rank Team Record 6–3 6–3 8–1 4 5–4 5 7–2 6 4–5 7 6–3 8 2–7 9 2–4 10 2–4 11 2–4 12 1–5 13 1–2 14 1–2 15 1–2 16 0–3
Moritz Kleine-Brockhoff Henrik Rödl Michael Koch Chris Welp Teoman Öztürk Henning Harnisch Gunther Behnke Stephan Baeck Hansi Gnad Kai Nürnberger Jens Kujawa Mike Jackel Vladimir Gorin Dmitry Shakulin Dmitry Sukharev Maksim Astanin Vitaliy Nosov Sergei Bazarevich Sergei Babkov Mikhail Michajlov Vasily Karasev Andrei Fetisov Sergei Panov Vladislav Kondratov Velimir Perasović Alan Gregov Ivica Žurić Vladan Alanović Franjo Arapović Žan Tabak Stojko Vranković Danko Cvjetićanin Arijan Komazec Dino Rađa Emilio Kovačić Veljko Mršić Giorgos Bosganas Kostas Patavoukas Panagiotis Giannakis Lefteris Kakiousis Giorgos Sigalas Efthimis Bakatsias Nasos Galakteros Christos Tsekos Giannis Papagiannis Panagiotis Fasoulas Nikos Oikonomou Fanis Christodoulou
References
External links archive.FIBA.com FIBA Archive Eurobasket 1993 at FIBAEUROPE.COM